Cheerleading!

I was in cheerleading for 8 seasons. Seventh and eighth I only had the opportunity to cheer for basketball as we didn’t have enough funding to also do so. I also cheered on the varsity level for 6 seasons, my freshman, junior and senior years were the years I cheered. I didn’t cheer my sophomore year because I had a lot going on with homework and problems with the coach. My first 3 years cheering I had the best coaches there were to have! I had Coach Nelson and Coach Filizetti. They taught us the way we needed to be taught. Our routine my freshman and junior (click here to watch junior year's routine) years were the best that the school has seen in years. Our routines were very hard to learn but also were very fun to do. I wanted to be a base for the longest I could be and I was only not in one stunt which shows that I could actually handle being able to throw around girls and be able to do that for a solid 3 minute routine only taking breaks to dance, which isn’t a very good break. I was NOT impressed with my routine my senior year, the seniors (my friend Taylor and I) fought for a good routine but the coach disagreed with the things I would say. It was very hard to have such a horrible routine be my last but I will always remember the routines that wouldn’t have been possible without me and my other bases. I had to have surgery my senior year of high school, after cheer season of course. And I am still not able to cheer, that is a bummer because I was looking forward to being a cheerleader for northern, seeing as I can single base a flyer and not many other girls can do that.

The Crazy Girl 2 Doors Down.

Cheyanne is this super cool girl who lives down the hall. Earlier this weekend Friday night to be exact I had to go in her room to get a phone number for my friend Justin. While I was there we started talking about literally everything, everything between us as kids, our parents, and us both being in cheerleading. We are the same person. We both have younger brothers who we love more than the world. At the same time our families are crazy! We are both very close to our mothers, when I went in her room earlier she showed me a video that reminded her of me and my mom. On Saturday morning we both went to Michaels because I needed to pick up skeletons for my step mom… that’s a story for another blog post. Anyways we both realized that we were hungry at like the same time and decided on going to Applebee’s. While there we both ordered the same thing without discussion. Then my mom called me and we decided to take a trip out to Gwinn to watch my brother start in his first 7^th grade football game. While at the game my grandparents showed up, they made a 2 hour road trip to surprise us and I was very thankful for that because my grandpa starts at the University of Iowa on Tuesday. Cheyanne got to meet my grandparents, mom and stepdad all in the same day, crazy because my roommate hasn’t met my grandparents yet. Anyways we had to leave the game early so I could make it to the dome for the football game to write an out of class activity paper and a live performance and have them out of the way. I think I met my new best friend my 5^th week of college!

My New Job

I started my job at Father Marquette Elementary School on Thursday and so far I love it! I get payed to help kids in kindergarten through fourth grade. My job entitles me to help with homework and also play outside and games with the kids. I work with anywhere between fifteen to twenty kids a day. The kids I work with are all ages like I said so they are all over with their maturity levels. There are some kids who sit and do their homework when they come in, others have to be asked to show their homework folders and have them checked. Although I have only been there for a few days I have learned a lot about the kids that come in. Austin is in kindergarten (he skipped Pre-K) and he is 5 and three quarters as he will tell you if you ask. He also loves to be on the swings, but only if he pumps his legs to get high (he doesn’t like getting pushed.) Stella is in kindergarten and loves to play on the monkey bars, this is the first year that she can get all the way across. She also is in dance class, she dances in jazz, tap, and hip hop. Amelia is in first grade and doesn’t like to do her spelling words endless someone reads them to her (which is now one of my jobs.) She also loves to wear pretty dresses and play with littlest pet shops. Sophia is Amelia’s older sister she is in third grade and LOVES to play with Mr. Beaver which all the kids like to do also. Mack is also in 3^rd grade he enjoys playing with anything anyone gives him. He is the child in the classroom that always makes people feel better about themselves and also invites everyone to play with him. So far after the first couple days I love my job and the kids that I work with are fun to learn about.